WOOD-PANF.LLING. 



I ).. AT LOXI.STOWK IIAI.I.. 

 cynic might reply : What kind of a pict 



is vours if it 



t go 



Tli 



a io.it, thus 



ketl 



about lifty pounds. Owing to modern 



Grinling Gibbons that lostered this 



development, and the general effect ot 



the treatment can be seen in the 



accompanying illustration of a modern 



example in this manner, where emphasis 



is given to the picUue framed in the 



overmantel by a Gibbons-like composi 

 tion of fruit and cherubs (Fig iS). 



The whirligig of Time brings in 



its revenges, and the fashion which 



our grandfathers discarded is no\v in 



vogue once more. Nor is the change 



a mere freak of fickleness; lor where 



there arc, no line p .ctmes to be hung, 



panelling is a highly satisfactory method 



of covering a wall. To be sure, painters 



grumble sadly and assert that the 



prevalence of panelling is depriving 



them of their occupation ; that the 



man who has his walls panelled wants 



pictures no more than the man of 



austere taste: would think ol adding 



jam to his bread and butter. To which the 



cannot hold its own again--! lifeless wood ? 



However this may be, there is no doubt that, given the desire to obtain a decorative ettect. the 



desire can be gratified more cheaply by panelling than by pictures. F orty or tilty pounds would n 



tir in pictures, but it would go all round a lair-si/.ed room in the manner &amp;gt;hown in l ig 



The room is large, nearly thirty leet by twenty feet, and the panelling is over ten feet in height. 



area covered was about live hundred square lei t , and ilie cost of the panelling, at one -lulling and tenpenee 



of doing the work a 

 suitable combina 

 tion oi ma&amp;lt; innery 

 and hand lab&amp;gt; nn 

 it is now po-.sib!.- 

 to produce panel 

 ling at le-s than 

 hall the prices pre 

 valent ten years 

 a go. K\ pensive 

 woods are, not 

 necessary for rich 

 et tects. Proportion 

 and rhythm may 

 not be easy to 

 obtain, but they 

 are not costly in 

 execution. It is, 

 therefore, worth 

 anybody s while, 

 when building or 

 altering his house, 

 to consider the 

 use of this charm 

 ing method of 

 decoration in one 

 or more of the 

 rooms. 



It is not neces 

 sary to employ oak 

 or other hard 



15. DESIGNED BY MESSRS. SIMPSON AND AYRTON. woods. Delightful 



